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Habitat Selection in Birds: On the Presence of Other Bird Species with Special Regard to Turdus pilaris

(1) Habitat selection in passerines and Columba palumbus was studied in relation to the occurrence of Turdus pilaris, using data from repeated surveys (a total of 498) in four forest localities in ...
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BREEDING BIOLOGY OF AN ENDEMIC BORNEAN TURDID, THE FRUITHUNTER (CHLAMYDOCHAERA JEFFERY1), AND LIFE HISTORY COMPARISONS WITH TURDUS SPECIES OF THE WORLD

We present the first description of the breeding biology for the Fruithunter (Chlamydochaera jefferyi), a member of the cosmopolitan family Turdidae, and a montane endemic to the tropical Asian island ...
Nature

Morphology and genetics reveal an intriguing pattern of differentiation at a very small geographic scale in a bird species, the forest thrush Turdus lherminieri

Population differentiation is the first step toward speciation. Then, understanding mechanisms underlying population structure is a crucial issue in evolutionary biology and ecology (Barton and Hewitt ...
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Male/female plumage differences in thrushes promote species recognition

CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — In 1868, the naturalist Charles Darwin wrote that differences in plumage coloration between male and female birds of the same species were likely the result of sexual selection: ...